I lost seven pounds this week.  Pretty cool, huh?
One of the biggest pieces of advice I hear, pretty much from everyone, when I talk about losing weight is this:  “Don’t think of it as having to lose over two hundred pounds, do it in five pound chunks”, or “take baby steps and you’ll get there!”, [...]

I’m told this winter will be mild.  Mild, however, is a relative term.  If the area you’re in usually drops down to the single digits, mild might be an average temperature in the teens or low twenties.  Still pretty freakin’ cold.
And there are people who are going to have a much harder time of it [...]

Most of you probably don’t know, but I’ve been watching (and to a small degree, participating in) the Real Life Superhero movement for a short time now. Don’t know what that is? Let me put it this way:
Superheroes are real.
It’s amazing, and completely true. Walking the streets of our cities are men and [...]

If the President of the United States can do it, why can’t I?
For those who have kept up, I moved the blog away from The Simon Project and started using an old domain I had sitting around, the one I used for blogging way back in when online journals were new.  That’s change number one. [...]

I was driving to work, listening to the local talk radio station, as was my normal routine, prepared to see my physical therapist before going on the clock for a another day of the same old thing: customer calls and Diablo II.  The drive was a time of relaxation, fifteen minutes from home to office, [...]

I woke up this morning – well, no… that would be a lie.  I woke up this afternoon to the news of John McCain’s Vice Presidential pick.  You’ve probably already seen or read about it somewhere else, so I’m not going to make this a long, drawn-out discussion, but I do want to say that [...]

As I mentioned a few days ago, I bought tickets to see The Lion, the Witch, and the Wardrobe for myself and my family – and a few others – back in December. Then, due to an act of nature (why do we sometimes call those acts of God? Do we really believe [...]